[meteorite-list] Predynastic LDG tools

From: Svend <Svend_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:33 2004
Message-ID: <E17wk4F-0000O6-00_at_smtp.web.de>

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:45:25 EDT, TektiteDawg_at_aol.com wrote:

>To List:
>
> Does anybody know of a good reference (preferably a web site) th=
at
>discusses stone tools made from Libyan Desert Glass (i.e. most common
>occurrences, tool types, etc..)?
>
Hello Randy and list,

there is quite some reference material regarding prehistoric artifacts
recovered from the sahara deserts. I did not yet step over a website
covering your particular subject but the following publications refer
to LDG, standard tool types as well as to the other materials that have
been used. If you roughly know what period your tools belong to
(paleo-, epipaleo- or neolithic) classification is indeed much easier.
You may as well have a look at the prehistoric finds inventory at our
website:
 http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/praehist.htm
The classifications are also in english, so some of it may be of use
for you. In march 03 we recovered some 120 artifacts, about 20% are
already listed in the inventory catalogue.

This is a rich article about LDG tools recovered from the Great Sand
Sea in the one and only Bullettin for Archaeoastronomy:
Carlson, John B., ed., Archaeoastronomy: The Bulletin of the Center for
Archaeoastronomy, Volume V, no. 2, April-June 1982. Olsen, John W.,
``Libyan Desert Glas and the Prehistory of the Great Sand Sea,'' p. 11.

The paleolithics are best covered by: Francois Bordes: Lecons sur le
Paleolithique, Vol II, Paris 1984.

This is probably the most suitable tool for your research because it
covers most of the published finds in all Northafrica until the 1980s.
Each entry goes along with various sources for futher research.
Alphabetical order allows to search either for special tool types or
for the location your tools have been found at:
Andre L=E9roi-Gourhan: Dictionaire de la prehistoire, foreword by Jos=E9=

Garanger, Paris 1986

This is a German standard refernce guide for recognition and
classification of prehistoric tools:
Hansjuergen Mueller Beck (ed.): Erkennen und Bestimmen von Stein und
Knochenartefakten, Tuebingen 1993. With an online dictionary
classifications can easyly be translated.

At: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/browse.cfm?&CatID=3D360&StartRow=3D11
you will find an english research report of the Olduvai excavation in
Northern Tansania. It contains a complete tool inventory of the
"average At=E9rien hunter clan" and is also representative for the
At=E9rien in Libya resp. the northeastern Africa.

If somebody else comes aross any reference website I would be thankful
for a link as well.

best wishes
Svend



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